Vaginal ultrasound is an extremely useful tool when evaluating an infertile woman, but it often bothers me because there are some sonographers who over interpret the scan images. Now, I like the fact that they are careful and systematic, and document everything they......

You can read the full text of the paper in  Human Reproduction at https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/33/5/924/4925329 It's chock full of medical jargon, but the message is quite clear ! Abstract STUDY QUESTION What is the chance of having a child followin......

The problem is that  most X-ray clinics do a very poor job at taking a HSG , because they try to cut corners. Many radiologists are not comfortable doing a vaginal examination, and are quite clumsy at performing the HSG. Even worse, they only take 2-3 films, and don'......

A patient sent me this email. Hi doctor my wife had two miscarriages in last 18 months . After second miscarriage we have done TORCH test, it shows high range of of CMV IgG at 200 (normal range is 0-6) and CMV IgM is non reactive range (0.17) we had consult doctor h......

Many patients who want to use donor eggs ask us if we have " diva " donors.  Apparently, this is a popular term in many IVF clinics for donors with special traits - for example, they have " higher attributes " in terms of education and background.  Now a diva is a p......

A patient sent me this email after 2 failed IVF cycles at our clinic It is frustrating, but i think we need to do a deep analysis to understand why things are not going the right way, if we plan to again go for this entire process of IVF. She had diligently follow......

A patient sent me this email. Our last IVF cycle failed. We had 3 euploid embryos after doing PGD. These were graded as 6AA, 6AA, and 5AA. We had planned to transfer only one of the 6AAs on a FET , but when it thawed it didn’t look great. It was still alive but loo......

This is a common concern many patients have. Please remember that IVF pregnancies are the same as natural pregnancies, so they aren't at increased risk of prematurity. It's not the IVF which causes the prematurity - it's the multiple pregnancies ( which are commoner......

A patient sent me this email I had Laparoscopy 4 months back, was diagnosed with TB PCR, and now I am 5 Weeks Pregnant. My concern is should I continue the medicines prescribed by the doctor? will it cause any birth defect in the baby if i consume the medication like......